nexusformat

Introduction

This package provides a Python API to open, create, and manipulate NeXus data written in the HDF5 format. The 'nexusformat' package provides the underlying API for NeXpy, which provides a GUI interface for visualizing and analyzing NeXus data.

The latest development version is always available from NeXpy's GitHub repository.

Installing and Running

Released versions of nexusformat can be installed using either

    $ pip install nexusformat

or, if you are in a conda environment::

    $ conda install -c conda-forge nexusformat

The source code can be downloaded from the NeXpy Git repository:

    $ git clone http://github.com/nexpy/nexusformat.git

Prerequisites

The following libraries are used by the full installation of NeXpy. There is more details of the nature of these dependencies in the NeXpy documentation.

• h5py http://www.h5py.org
• numpy http://numpy.org
• scipy http://scipy.org

User Support

Consult the NeXpy documentation for details of both the Python command-line API and how to use the NeXpy GUI. If you have any general questions concerning the use of NeXpy, please address them to the NeXus Mailing List. If you discover any bugs, please submit a Github issue, preferably with relevant tracebacks.